Chaucer's Absolon: A Sinful Parody of the Miller

Author / Editor
Burkhart, Robert E.

Title
Chaucer's Absolon: A Sinful Parody of the Miller

Published
Cithara 8.2 (1969): 47-54.

Description
Identifies exegetical details in the characterization of Absolon in MilT, helping to identify the clerk with the sins of avarice, lechery, and pride and showing how he is a parody of Robyn the Miller "in the Miller's own tale."

Chaucer Subjects
Miller and His Tale